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Prologue…April Ryan ran as fast as she could through the trees, Crow someplace close.
Prologue...
She could hear the Azadi behind her as she ran, their footsteps growing closer.
She leapt over a fallen tree, her cloak flaring behind her, before she reached the ground and she continued running, the end of the forest up ahead.
Just a little further… She thought, forcing herself to run faster.
"Hurry!" Crow called down to her. "They're getting closer!"
"I know that!" She yelled back up at him before reaching the end of the forest and running into a field.
With large cattle-like beasts nearby, April kept running as a strange roaring filled the air.
It almost sounds like a motorcycle… She thought.
Suddenly a black object darted across the field, the driver swearing as they reached the rocky road before speeding away.
It was! She thought before reaching a river and diving in.
She swam downriver until reaching the shore, a cart, Chawan dressed in farmer's clothes while the creature pulling the cart snorted, waiting.
"Let's get out of here!" She whispered as she climbed into the back of the cart, waiting as Crow landed before pulling a rough blanket over both of them, staying low as Chawan steered the cart away from the river, the Azadi going after the stranger on the motorcycle instead.
She breathed a sigh of relief.
Lara rode through the field in the dark, noticing the strange beasts grazing as she passed them.
Those definitely aren't cattle. She thought with a frown.
"Zip, are you getting this?" She asked as her only Tech Guy, and the funniest person that worked with her, typed away at one computer, the images from Lara's headset on the others as Winston stood nearby, Alistair upstairs doing some research on the world of Arcadia.
"Sure am Lara. What are those things?" He asked, referring to the cattle-like beasts.
"I don't know Zip." She said before cursing as she hit a bumpy section of the road.
Noting out of the corner of her eye a figure in the field, with several more emerging from the forest behind them, she continued on.
"I've got it!" Alistair's voice was loud as she winced, Zip and Winston glaring at him as he shouted and ran into the Tech Room.
"My apologies, but I've found where you're supposed to go." He said excitedly.
"And where might that be?" She asked, driving sharply around a slow-moving cart.
"The Dark People's City!" Alistair said, practically jumping up and down. Winston shot him a glare and he stopped.
"And what's so special about there?" Lara asked, speeding towards a city.
"They have all books ever published! Well, in their world, but they will have a copy of the book you're- We're looking for!" Alistair said, grinning.
"And how do I get there?" She asked as the city came closer by the second. What in the world… Is that a huge tower? She asked herself.
"Is that a huge tower?" Zip asked, echoing her thoughts.
"It seems so." Lara said.
"Looks like another adventure." Zip said cheerfully.
"I'll go make some more coffee." Winston said, leaving.
"You never did say how I get to the Dark People's City, Alistair." She said.
"Well… Erm… That is to say…" Alistair stalled.
"Just tell us man." Zip said.
"…You have to get a ride on one of their ships, and they don't let strangers go to the city usually…" He said meekly. "I'm so sorry!" He wailed, falling to his knees. "Please forgive me!"
Lara sighed. "We've been through this Alistair- I'm not going to fire you just because I have to do some extra work."
Alistair stopped. "You're not? Oh thank God!" He said, scrambling to his feet.
She sighed. It's going to be a long night… She thought.
Chawan struggled to keep control of the beast pulling the cart as April heard the motorcycle speed by.
"What is that thing? Some sort of Azadi machine?" Crow asked.
April shook her head. "No, at least, I hope not. They're called 'motorcycles' where I come from." She said as Crow shook his head.
"Man, you have some weird things on your planet." He said.
She nodded. "Tell me about it."
"Don't mind if I do." Crow said cheerfully as she winced.
Why am I the first one to write a story for this crossover? It's a natural crossover!!! Review if you want, don't if you don't. Thank you for reading this story and this note. And thank you to those who put up with my strange updates.